Remember those fan-made Derrick Rose and LeBron James videos from earlier this summer? With the 2013-14 season only 48 hours young, they may have been outdone already. The accompanying clip found below is a fake TNT promo and would’ve fooled me had it not depicted potential impending events.

From KD’s first championship, Bron in the dunk contest, James Harden winning MVP and Rose dropping 70 in a game, an eerie glimpse into the possible future is provided. The most humbling, however, was hearing Kobe confess his own basketball mortality. As much flack as I may give the guy, the sobering realization that the end of his career (and others of his era) is much closer than I’d care to admit is eerie, and fairly depressing.

Man I was just watching this last night & got chills from how weird yet so dope it was! I got that eeiry sort of sad feeling seeing the Kobe part to cause of all the players I grew up idolizing as sports figures wanting to emulate & be like he’s the last 1 left! MJ is we know has been long gone & Griffey, as well as Moss within the past few years have made it an almost complete trifecta of the sports! Sure there is players I like now like Brandon Phillips, Adrian Peterson, D Rose, etc. But when there’s certain players you grew up idolizing & wanting to be like it just doesn’t feel quite the same after they retire from their respective sports! Honestly if it wasn’t for Kobe I probably would’ve lost complete or almost complete faith in my basketball fandom till DRose eventually came along!